The U.S. has played its Middle-east military strategy card to gain more control of the region. Afghanistan and Iraq correspond to strike one and strike two, and this gamesmanship move for “regime-change” in Syria will stabilize the Middle-east, not going to happen. The U.S. has helped arm and train the Syrian rebels (moderates and ISIS factions), the equivalent of a foreign nation arming all the inner-city street gangs in the U.S. After 12 days of the Russian entering the fray, and the news is the “rebels/gangs” are on the run, requires the U.S. to provide stories that they are bombing also and killing the terrorists it created.